Greek Alphabet Names For Storms

Greek Alphabet Names For Storms. We've officially entered the Greek Alphabet for Atlantic storms After 2020's extremely active season, meteorologists decided to reevaluate the use of the Greek alphabet for storm names This year's exceptional pace of named storms has already crossed off Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta from the secondary list of Greek alphabet names

Going forward, the WMO has decided the Greek alphabet will no longer be used to supplement the 21 original names on both the Atlantic names list and Pacific names list. The Greek alphabet will be replaced by a supplemental list of names using the same rules as the main Atlantic hurricane season naming list — a list of names A-Z but excluding the letters Q, U, X.

Greek alphabet in use for storms this 2020 Caribbean News Now!

Greek letters had been used to name storms only once before, in 2005, another busy hurricane season that produced. There are no guidelines for retiring a storm named with a Greek letter After 2020's extremely active season, meteorologists decided to reevaluate the use of the Greek alphabet for storm names

Extremely busy hurricane season 2020 now taps into the Greek alphabet. Subtropical storm #Alpha, also named today, is the first storm to take a name from the first letter of the Greek alphabet The Greek alphabet will be replaced by a supplemental list of names using the same rules as the main Atlantic hurricane season naming list — a list of names A-Z but excluding the letters Q, U, X.

Greek Symbols SVG. Going forward, the WMO has decided the Greek alphabet will no longer be used to supplement the 21 original names on both the Atlantic names list and Pacific names list. There are no guidelines for retiring a storm named with a Greek letter